Influential ska-pop band The Specials have announced a full UK tour reports the BBC.

The Coventry outfit revealed in April 2008 that they would reform and return to live action for the first time since their split in 1981.

Heralded by the likes of Blur, Lily Allen and The Enemy as a primary influence - the line up will play eight UK dates next spring.

The jaunt begins in Newcastle on 22 April and concludes at London's Brixton Academy on 7 May.

The gigs will see the line up of Terry Hall, Lynval Golding, Neville Staple, Roddy Byers, Horace Panter and John Bradbury reconvene.

The band are largely credited with the popularity of ska punk in the late 1970s and the emergence of the 2-Tone sound.

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Full dates are:

April 2009

22 - Newcastle Academy
23 - Sheffield Academy
25 - Birmingham Academy
26 - Birmingham Academy
28 - Glasgow Academy

May

3 - Manchester Apollo
6 - London Brixton Academy
7 - London Brixton Academy

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